Eventually, I’ll go back to using social media. But I’ll take an even more cautious approach. I’ll have a new definition of who I agree to “friend,” and it will be much closer to the old definition of friendship. My friends will be those I actually know and trust. If someone sends me a “friend” request, I will be as discerning as I am in choosing who I include in my off-line life.

She says she provided the photo to the hoaxter, widely reported to be Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, who told her “he was trying to cheer up his cousin, who’d been nearly killed in a car accident and was awaiting surgery for head trauma. The cousin had seen my picture and thought I was pretty, and this man thought it would help his cousin’s state to get a photograph of me.”